Saturday 19 January 2013

How to Feel Better When Depressed

By Patricia E. Beeson


Do you feel less healthy than you'd like? Do you have health issues that don't want to go away no matter what you do to try to alleviate them?Have you been to doctors, only to have them tell you there's nothing wrong with you?Health is not the absence of disease. It is a state of well being in body, mind and spirit. When you are truly healthy, you'll feel a zest for living, an abundance of energy to get up and go do the things you love to do. Anything less is not real health.
[How To Feel Better]


Now take a fresh sheet of paper and write down all the things that you appreciate about yourself. What's great about you? Are you a good friend? A great listener? Maybe you're really good at drawing or a great cook? Be honest because if you look hard enough there is something amazing about all of us. Again keep writing until you can't think of anymore or your arm hurts through writing whichever comes first.

Exercise also has physical benefits as well such as a healthy heart, bones, and blood flow. For individuals who don't have the desire to utilize physical activity as a coping mechanism, may find it beneficial to use something such as dance to incorporate this into their treatment. Psychotherapy can be a great help for treating depression, studies show that 50% of people diagnosed with mild to moderate depression achieve symptom relief through psychotherapy. Self-help books on depression are essential to learning how to battle depression effectively. As there are many different diagnoses types for this condition, manic being the most severe form.In my personal experience as a creative writer and someone who uses writing is an emotional outlet, when I don't write for long periods of time my mental health is affected. Exercise has always been a major part of my life, and when I veered away from it I could feel the effect it had on my stress level and mood. Exercise has been proven to be one of the most fast acting anti-depressant treatments because of the immediate response our bodies has to it. There is no one size fits all treatment for this condition, everyone has different needs and their own unique response to treatments. However patients suffering with this mental health disorder have to all start with one thing, and that is acknowledging that you have a problem and you need help.

How are you feeling today? Would you like to feel better tomorrow? If so, here's some good news: You can feel great in just 24 hours by making small changes in your diet and lifestyle.These changes don't require you to do anything extraordinary. In fact, these are the little rules that we know we need to live by for optimal health and happiness, but which get shoved aside by our daily routines.Try them out for a day, and feel the difference,Start Your Day Off Right.Look at your usual breakfast choices. Could they be healthier? Do you skip breakfast in an effort to save calories, or because you don't like to eat first thing in the morning? Your breakfast kicks off your metabolism for the day. If you run on empty all morning, your metabolism will slow to a crawl. You'll also find yourself starving by lunchtime, making it more likely that you'll overeat.Give your morning a healthy start by preparing a nutritious breakfast of turkey bacon, eggs, and fresh strawberries.

Keep your chin up because you have plenty to be grateful for it's just sometimes hard to see this when you are feeling down. When you start believing that you can feel better you will start feeling better.Start with a smile, just a little one and then feel it deep inside your soul till you're grinning like a Cheshire cat. Smiling helps shift your emotions and your mood. You deserve to feel better, the fact that you're reading this tells me you want to. So go on, enjoy yourself do something fun.

How does this work? When you have food sensitivities, your body is unable to completely digest the foods to which you are sensitive. The partially digested foods pass into your bloodstream and your immune system treats them as foreign invaders, like bacteria and viruses. It attacks them, causing an inflammatory reaction. As long as you continue to eat foods to which you are sensitive, you will continue to cause more and more inflammation to develop in your body and your health will decline.

It doesn't matter if the foods to which you are sensitive are "healthy" foods. They're not healthy for you. You can be sensitive to any food. For example, some of my sensitive foods are salmon, trout, grapefruit, kiwi, papaya, pineapple, red leaf and romaine lettuce, potatoes, gluten, whey and more.

Also, give yourself enough time to get a full night's sleep. Most of us require between 8 and 10 hours a night. If you've been operating on significantly less, you might be surprised by how refreshed you can feel with just a little extra sleep.The greatest wealth that we can have in this life is to have a healthy body. Without a healthy physiological condition, we could not enjoy life, we could not accomplish our tasks, we could not experience living to the fullest.It is therefore to maintain healthy living. But we must also consider the fact that we need to FEEL better. Feeling our best comes from within. It is a personal experience wherein we sense our selves. Feeling better not only means having a healthy body, but also a healthy state of mind. For starters, strive to achieve a healthy lifestyle. This results to a healthy physical and mental state. Do some exercise which will give you energy and make every cell in your body alive. It will also brush away your lethargy and lassitude.Do not neglect your mind. There are mental exercises and calisthenics that keep your brain active and alert. This increases your reaction time, stimulates a healthy outlook, and generally keeps your mind from being sluggish and lazy.

Be with happy people. Their positive energy is quite infectious. At the end of a weary day, instead of reading or watching depressing news or serious movies, turn to children's comics, cartoons or comedies. And laugh out loud.Before going to sleep,make two lists for the next day - one for the things you have to do, and one for the things you keep postponing. Keep the second one very short - just 2 or 3 items. The next day, even if you cannot tick off every item on the first list, make sure you do the second one. And see for yourself how better it makes you feel!




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